christine brennan sports columnist of for "usa today" one of the best in the business. man, elizabeth lambert really went it for. are our young ladies becoming more violent? let's start with these soccer cases here. what you are seeing. >> well, what i'm seeing is violence in sports which has always been there and what i'm seeing is that more women are playing sports and more girls are playing sports so the girls and women are starting to display the same kinds of aggression in sports the boys and men already have. they do it for the same reasons. they do it, one, because they think they'll get away with it and they think somehow it's going to help them win. in other words, they think they'll be rewarded it for. so, if it goes unpunished and they are rewarded you're going to see more people being violent or aggressive in sports. >> you are just saying they are emulating the guys, not a societal message we are giving the girls the green light to become more violent a strict sports thing. >> well, i do know in many sports you see lots of aggression and foul play and if it's caught, it g

a homeland security secretary nepolitano and homeland security advisor, john brennan. i asked them to keep -- continue monitoring the situation, to keep the american people and members of congress informed. here is what we know so far. on christmas day, northwest airlines flight 253 was in route to -- from amsterdam to detroit. as the plane made its final approach to the detroit metropolitan airport, a passenger allegedly tried to ignite an explosive device on his body, setting off a fire. thanks to the quick and heroic actions of passenger and crew, the subject was immediately subdued, the fire was put out, and the plane landed safely. the suspect is now in custody and has been charged with attempting to destroy an aircraft. a full investigation has been launched into this attempted act of terrorism and we will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable. this was a serious reminder of the dangers we face and the nature of those who threaten our homeland. how the suspect succeeded in bringing down the plane. it could have killed nearly 300 passengers and

almost 20 years since william brennan, the architects -- architect of many of those decisions left the supreme court. i don't think there is a liberal wing of this court since brennan and marshall left the supreme court. is there any hope the supreme court will play a meaningful role in promoting the liberal agenda in the future? >> i think the opposite is more likely to be true. i think in the foreseeable future, and i think what we learned most in the sotomayor confirmation process, is how thoroughly conservative our -- are dominating both the judiciary and the conversation about the current judiciary. let me make three points that flesh that out. first is a question of pure numbers. it's going to take well into the second obama term, if there is such a term, for the lower federal courts to start to move in a progressive bregs direction. it could well be that after eight years of an obama administration, a two-term obama presidency, the same five conservatives that are dominating the supreme court right now could still be there dominating the supreme court. so there is first a qu

justice marshall. or you can think about it in terms of bill brennan, cobbling together majorities of people for positions that don't -- that aren't always intuitively obvious as a legal matter. but in some sense, have this real underbelly of pragmatism and politics in the best sense of the word, in terms of making people of all sides and all persuasions come together and celebrate the decision. and there are some costs to that, of course. a cost in terms of fidelity to the statutory text and a precedent as well, but there's a multimember of court. maybe a real strong case to be made for it. on the other hand, you could say, well, there's the view of the true intellectual, the frankfurter, or the then judge rehnquist -- justice rehnquist, writing these lone decents in the 1970's, which ultimately become in many cases the law of the land. there justice thomas i think is really staking out a bit of that territory and not being afraid to be the lone decenter in the voting rights act case or in the trip search case. it's unclear to me which is the right way to be. but i do think that that